Block last



6. B. FITZ.

FILED JULY 16. IQHL Feb. 2U, 1923..

tea ctr GUY B. FI'rz, F AUBURN, MAINE, ASSIGNOR To BITE-EMPIRE DOUBLE PIVOT LAST COMPANY, OF AUBURN, IVIAINE, A COREORATICN 0F MAINE.

BLOCK Las'r.

Application filed July 16,1919. Serial No. 311,219.

1 To all whomitmayconcem: v and is held in position by the pin 12 and Beitknown that I, GUY B. Frrz, a cilti the sliding bolt 1a, which respectiveiy en- 55 i zen of tlieUnited States, residing at Auburn, gage holes 16, 18. These features. are all of in the county of i'indroscoggin and State ordinary construction. i v of Maine, have invented certain Improves One of the last parts, pre'l'ferably the main merits in Block Lasts, of which the folloW- body, has a channel 90 formed along the ing description, in connection with the ac joint surface, extending substantially the 60 companying drawings, is a specification, like length. of the connection desired between the reference characters on the drawings vindiblock and the main body of the last. A suiteating like parts, in the several figures. able anchoring means, illustrated as a screw This invention relates to boot and shoe eye 22, is inserted at one end of this chanlasts and in particular to block lasts. It nel; another eye i/lis inserted in the un- 65 has been found advisable to unite the instep channeled last part near the other end of block to the main body of the last by a conthe cl'iannel, and these eyes are united by a neetion of some kind, in orderto avoid loss flexible connection, preferably a metallic or inisplacement of the block. ,This conchain 26.

nection has to be loose and flexible in order This chain is more perfectlyflexible than 70 to permit ready withdrawal of the block any cord of even approximately equivalent n and has heretofore been in the form of a strength and can be placed in and will fall 2 cord having its ends fastened to the two to the bottom of the channel without any last parts. This cord, however arranged manipulation, or repeated trials. The pin;

relatively to the last, is in the way, ishard 12 is offset from thechannel, so that the 75 to manage, gets caught between the last chain will not become tangled with the pin. parts and prevents their proper assembly, An important advantage of the illustrated and portions of it are often caught between. construction resides in the freedom of the the last and the jack and cut. outside surface of the last from holes re- It is the object of the present inventionto lated to the connection. All parts of the 0 providenn instep block connection which connection are entirelyconcealed, and the will avoid the above and other disadvansurface of the last is perfectly normal. tag'es. There is no projecting portion. of the con- An important feature of the invention nection to get in the way or to be injured or consists in. a connection receiving channel cut bythe use of the last. y lying entirely ithin the last, the external Having described my invention, what I surface of the last being norm-ah I claim as new and desire to secure by Lot- Another feature resides in a flexible conters Patent of the United States 1 nectioncornprising aplurality of freely p1V 1. A block last having a connection. re-

oted members. This connectionis illusceiving channel betweenthe lastparts and 90 ,trated aswa metallic chain, the weight'and lying entirely within the last, anda chain perfect flexibility of wliich make its n1aconnection lying in said channel, entirely 40 nipulation very simple and convenient. concealed when the last 1s assembled and a Theseand other features of the invenanchored to the last parts, the external surtion, including certain details of construcface of the last being unbroken by said con- 95 tion and con'ibinations of parts, will be unnection. n

i derstood from the :following description of 2.1% block last having a channel in the a preferred embodiment of the invention, main body and a metallic chain fastental selected for purposes of illustration and to the body and the block near the ends of shown in the accompanying drawings in the channel, and arranged to dropunder 100 which the action'of gravity into the channel when a i Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the last the last is assembled. y 1 showing the block detached; In testimony whereof I have signed my Fig. 2 is asectional view of the last and name to this specification. block assembled. i a l The instep block 10 is ofordinary shape, GUY B. FIT/Z. 

